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Globular vase with a shrimp

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1925 - 1940
    Artist/maker
    Miyagawa Hanzan (1859 - 1940) (potter)
    Material and technique
    stoneware, with engraved and modelled decoration, partly covered with a green celadon glaze
    Dimensions
    26 cm (height)
    24 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1990.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.1
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 11 on p. 26, p. 8 | pp. 26-27

    Pollard, Clare, Master potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842-1916) and his Workshop, Oxford Oriental monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 112 | pl. 39

    Impey, Oliver, ‘Reflections upon the Arts and Crafts of Meiji Period Japan with Reference to the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 12 | p. 14 fig. 9

Location

    • Second floor | Room 36 | Japan

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